Not much free will when you have a gun to your head.

If that's the case then I'd like to see their sample size for full mouth x-rays. I'd bet it's smaller than the sample size for the partial/single bitwing and that could be the source of the vanishing connection. Basic statistics, if a known correlation exists, and you didn't find it in your particular sample check your sample size first. Throwing out the correlation because the smaller sample doesn't show what the larger sample does sounds a bit foolish, and if done that way would result in no correlation ever being found in anything.

You would be better off buying lottery tickets for your kids with the money that you're spending. At least there is a chance it could be used for something.

We don't have an hour of free time to blow...

When your mind is software you can just alter your perception of time and fast forward through all the boring parts.

With a growth in his chest, two ruptured disks and no job, Verone hoped a three-year stint in prison would afford him the health care he needed ...

But the charge of larceny, not armed robbery, is unlikely to keep Verone behind bars for more than 12 months

You can't win. Even the simplest of plans the powers that be manage to screw you over on.

You do know that there is an amazingly simple way to separate the salt from the water, right? It is called evaporation.

After the battery is discharged, the salt water is drained and fresh water is added to begin the cycle again.

The problem is most Slashdotters were hailing as "free speech" the Facebook thing where someone decided an employer couldn't fire an employee for blatantly badmouthing him on Faceboook.

Young man (seeing Churchill leaving the bathroom without washing his hands): At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the toilet.
Churchill: At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our hands.

Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you punch the clown?